Dan writes:

Article: Nancy Sinatra - Singer puts 'boots' back on to revive music career - 2theadvocate.com (July 18, 2003)

Here are the highlights:

The unreleased Morrissey track is deeply sad, no surprise to the melancholy Mancunian's fans.

"He wrote a beautiful song that's just heartbreaking. One of the lines is, 'Close your eyes and think of someone you physically admire,' and then at the end he says, 'You open your eyes and find someone you physically despise,' which is so typically Morrissey. He is the sweetest guy, and he's a real fan of mine. He's so self-deprecating that I wanted to shake him."

The participation of Morrissey, Reno, Cocker and Bono may help Sinatra find a record company for her album-in-the-works. She's been unable to find a label for her reunion project with Lee Hazelwood, her producer and gravel-toned duet partner for such haunting '60s hits as "Summer Wine" and "One Velvet Morning."

Record companies, the singer lamented, "they want either really established older people like Cher or young new people. I just don't fit in anywhere, so it's pretty tricky. But I guess the people contributing to the album might put it over the top. One can only hope. I almost signed with the same label as Morrissey. Maybe I should have taken that deal. Regrets, I've had a few."
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Related items:

• Nancy Sinatra talks about the new Morrissey song she is doing - May 15, 2003
• Nancy Sinatra given a new Morrissey song - Apr. 22, 2003

Tony writes:

Anybody see/hear the Moz mention in this movie my wife made me watch (I swear)? In the recent release "Uptown Girls", the musical hero/mopester/sellout was compared to Morrissey when the slut-bag heroine (Brittany Murphy) was told that he was celibate.

Nothing big there, just a slight mention to make the rest of the movie fly by.
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boyracer also writes:

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet and it's not that big... my mother, wife, and I went to the movies yesterday. We went to see this new movie with Brittany Murphy called "Uptown Girl". In the beginning it shows her at a birthday party being thrown for her. The big surprise was this new and upcoming British singer that was gonna sing a song for her. Of course, she see's him and hears his voice and wants him and her good friend tells her to forget about it because he's celibate... and she's like what? He says, "yes, he's celibate... like MORRISSEY! It's not much but it's nice to see him being mentioned! My mother and wife laughed when we heard it cause I screamed MORRISSEY! I guess u had to be there! That's it....

High Maintenance writes:

Colin Meloy, lead singer of The Decemberists recently covered Morrissey's "Everyday Is Like Sunday" in a solo concert on May 30th at Portland's Le Lazy Lady Lounge. The acoustic cover can be found on file-swapping service SoulSeek (where it is titled "Armageddon"). It's a nice version of the song, and everyone should buy the Decemberists "Castaways and Cutouts" LP. Great stuff.

Torr Leonard writes:

On last week's episode of MTV2's "Subterranean" the guests were Grandaddy. While telling the story of how he got run over by a tour bus, guitarist Jim Fairchild said "we had just finished watching a Smiths video".

p.s.
the latest issue of Wired magazine has a section called "What's on your ipod?" and Ben Lee lists "Shoplifters of the world unite", which he's been covering live recently, as has been mentioned here before.

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Tony writes:

Morrissey/Smiths Night
Friday, August 22, 2003
9PM to 2AM

UPSTAIRS at Delilah's
2771 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
21 + $3 cover

Here is the flyer.

Solo-Morrissey Fan in New Zealand writes:

For all those New Zealand Morrissey/ Smiths fans starved of anything live. Down-under Smiths Tribute band: "Friday Night Inoutpatients". Is doing a gig at the Indigo Bar in Cuba St, Wellington.

Friday 22nd August
8pm

Wicked!!

Galaxiefreak writes:

Boston singer-songwriter Leah Callahan (former Betwixt, Turkish Delight) will perform a set of Smiths covers backed by the Boston rock group Fightin Dogs at P.A.’s Lounge, at 345 Somerville Ave., in Somerville, Massachusetts at 9 p.m. on Friday, August 22. It’s a 21-plus show, $5 cover. For directions, visit http://www.PAsLounge.com/venue.htm.